Tufting-button for cushion-seats.



No. 676,5!0. Patented June [8, [90L F. A. NEIDER. TUFTING BUTTON FORCUSHION, SEATS.

(Application filed Mar. 25, 1901.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT GFFICE.

FRED A. NEIDER, OF AUGUSTA, KENTUCKY.

TUFTING-BUTTO N FOR CUSHION-SEATS.

SPECIFICATION forming.part of Letters Patent N 0. 676,510, dated June18, 1901.

Application filed March 25, 1901. Serial No. 52,766. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED A. NEIDER, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Augusta, in the county of Bracken and Stateof Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inTufting- Buttons for Cushion-Seats, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates, to tufting-buttons, and is an improvement upon thebutton for which United States Letters Patent No.630,553 were granted tome upon August 8, 1899. Its object is a button whose prongs in use willnot break at the point where they meet the back and will always bend ata predetermined distance from the back and which may be produced rapidlyand cheaply. This object is attained by the means described in theannexed specification, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, inwhich Figure l is a plan view of a blank containing the back and theprongs in its flat position as it is cut from a metal sheet. Fig. 2 is ka side elevation of the blank with the prongs standing at right anglesto the back; Fig. 3 is a view in side elevation of the blank completeand ready to receive the cap. Fig. 4is a plan view of the same. Fig. 5is a View in elevation of the same at right angles to the view in Fig.3. Fig. 6 is a similar view of the completed button. Fig. 7 is a viewshowing one of the prongs bent.

The blank is cut from a metal sheet, so as to have an enlarged centralportion, as shown by dotted lines, Fig. 1, forming the back a, atopposite sides of which are tapering portions, forming the bases a ofthe prongs and mergin g into reduced portions with parallel edges,forming the prongso The prongs are bent so that bases a incline inwardfrom the edges of the back, and the prongs where they meet their basesare curved so as to stand at substantially right angles to the back.

The back a has a shoulder upon each side of the prongs, as shown in Fig.5, which afford a good grip to cap B, which is bent down upon the backin a capping-machine.

In use the base of the prong inclining inward and the pressure forbending a prong be ing necessarily outward the base offers a directresistance to said pressure, so that the joint between the base and theback has to bear only a small amount of it, so that there is no tendencyto break at that point. The prongs will always bend at the point wherethe base and the prong meet, as described in my aforementioned patent;but with this form the'inclination of the base and the curve at thatpoint that is given to the prong in the making ofthe button heightensthe tendency to bend at that point.

What I claim is 1. As a new article of manufacture a button-back havingformed integral therewith prongs with parallel edges and enlarged basestapering from the back into the prongs and inclined inward from edges ofthe back, substantially as shown and described.

2. A tufting-button consisting of a blank having an enlarged centralportion forming the back, reduced portions with parallel edges formingthe prongs and tapering portions merging from the back into the prongsand inclined inward from the back and a cap engaging the back,substantially as shown and described.

FRED A. NEIDER.

WVitnesses: I

WIN A. FIELD, OHAs. PATTISON.

